WILLOW GLEN MAPS

This pages includes maps showing the current and historical boundaries

 of Willow Glen and its niche areas.

Above is the official City of San Jose - City Gov't "Greentprint 2009 Update; for Parks, Recreation Facilities and Trails; a Stategic Plan to 2020." The planning area now includes annexed areas to the city.

Willow Glen Planning area is not the same as the political Council Districts. As you can see from this map, the Willow Glen planning district is largely represented by both Council District 6 and 9, in addition to a small corner of District 3 at the far northeast.




Annotated: Since that year, San Jose has annexed a Santa Clara County pocket area that is described as the area between Dry Creek Road, Meridian and Hamilton Avenues, as well as one block west of Leigh Avenue. This area is now, officially, part of Willow Glen's Planning Area.


The Greentprint 2009 Update book, overall, has 145 pages; which does not include additional pages for the following: Forward; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; Bibliography; (Appendix A) Community Assessment; (Appendix B) Underserved Areas; (Appendix C) Parkland Inventory; (Appendix D) Strong Neighborhoods Initiative (SNI) Project List; and Acknowledgements.






Seen here, Page 70 shows the overall Planning Areas of the City of San Jose, which are separated into several areas, diversely from that of City Council Districts.





CHAPTER 5, page 141 includes population statistics, as well as "underserved areas," which, in this case, mostly has to do with park facilities.

The first paragraph of this page states:

"The Willow Glen planning area is a densely developed area west of downtown. It is 10.4 mi.² in area and the current population is 75,937, which yields a population density of 11.4 residents per acre. By the year 2020 the population is estimated to be 82,750."

ADDITIONAL to the Greenprint map presentations:




As of January 1, 2013 the City of San Jose's Department of Planning, Building & Code Enforcement Planning Division will go by the following Zoning Map update:
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2519


Take a walk, block by block, through the Willow Glen neighborhood and through our city... consider what is, what's underway and what's in the future.

Seen here is the the middle section of San José, including zoning maps generally south of the junction of Highway 101 and Highway 880 and north of the junction of Highway 87 and Highway 85. Select the desired grid and a map of the area will download momentarily.



As we look ahead through the years, we move closer to the Envision San José 2040 General Plan: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2086)




San Jose's zoning map is a stark contrast to the a map provided from the City of Campbell, which highlights the border of Willow Glen/San Jose. The zoning and planning areas of San Jose are divided and blocked, like individual tiles, across an entire map of the city. San Jose is a big of a city, compared to its neighbors. Just to understand the one neighborhood of Willow Glen, you must see several different maps-within-maps. 






Above is an old map of what was once called the Greater Gardner SNI Planning Area. An SNI was defined as a "Strong Neighborhoods Initiative" by the city: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?nid=1745

Many of the homes in the Gardner neighborhood have been beautifully restored; as well as that a new community center and school were built.





Above is an historic map from 1927, when Willow Glen was its own city, separate from San Jose.







If you want to clarify the border between Willow Glen (City of San Jose) and the City of Campbell, then its encourage that you to see this "Zoning Map" that is produced and maintained by Campbell's Planning Division. Also read the explanation below. To see the full zoning map at its original site, open this link: http://www.ci.campbell.ca.us/Planning/Resources/ZoningMap.pdf

If you have lived in San Jose or Campbell for many years, then you perhaps know of the seemingly haphazardly drawn borders between these two cities. Indeed, there are actually certain border lines between the two cities that are literally drawn at the back fences of individual homeowner properties. Its crazy enough to say that even neighborhood blocks can be divided by the cities; whereas the city line actually occurs between parcels of real estate. In fact, although two households are on the same street, on the same block and even next-door-neighbors; still, consider that they can be in either the City of Campbell or San Jose. 

What's more, go further south in the valley; then, also the City of Los Gatos has to be considered.

Some people believe that this problem originated during the earlier stages of city growth, when much of the land was controlled by farms and/or other landowners. Streets were once cut-through what was originally, and more than likely, less developed land. Landowners of farms and/or orchards often owned property that extended beyond city limits and streets. A good, well known example, is John C. Ainsley, the original owner of the Ainsley House, who's house and orchard was originally in present-day Willow Glen, although his cannery was across the way in Campbell (circa 1920s/'30s). To make this matter even more crazy, in the year 1990, Ainsley's house was transported from it's original location in San Jose, in order to be preserved and re-situated in downtown Campbell.


In today's reality, many of us are living or working on the land that was once someone's farm or orchard, but which has since been subdivided into smaller parcels. Perhaps, that we can understand? Yes. But, anyway, that's how we got here, from there... so it seems. All considered, let's just say that even the City of Campbell declares about this attached zoning map: 

"This map is for reference purposes only. Parcel-level accuracy is not guaranteed. Please contact the Planning Division... to verify all zoning district designations." 

Finally, if you want to consider what the City of San Jose has to say, or real estate professionals, then that's another additional matter.





Local Map Collection: Santa Clara Valley Water District District 2
Found online at:
http://www.valleywater.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=8734


This SCC Water District map was uploaded 27 July 2013.